Recover Integrity: Blog

What to expect in this episode: Understanding areas of identity, emotion regulation, emotional awareness, cognitive ability Jean Piaget was interested in was how human beings transform, that’s what growth is: growth is transformation. There are developmental disturbances in every single person coming into treatment.   Developmental Disturbances in Addiction Populations   We have got these areas of identity, emotion regulation, emotional awareness, cognitive ability (my ability to think in more complex ways) that’s actually worth understanding. There was a...

What to expect in this episode: A major developmental split we see is the split between self and other. Really Good Boundaries equate to really good mental health. Psychosis is an extreme example of this imbalance If you ever stumble upon a person on the street of LA experiencing psychosis, you notice they might cuss   Developmental Splits in the Psyche   One of the things that we work with in recovery are called splits, and splits are part...

What to expect in this episode: The relationship between development and addiction The Unbroken Brain Looks at addiction as a developmental disorder You’d be shocked if you actually sat with someone who was in some sort of distress and said, “what do you feel right now”? And they could not answer.   The Relationship Between Development & Addiction   One of the ways to understand addiction, that recently became popular, that I’ve been engaged in, in this blog...

What to expect in this episode: one of the most complex realms to navigate when were in recovery is the social, is the  interpersonal, is the areas that we get connected and disconnected One of the things we are working on within recovery, and it’s deeper work, is we're working on these internal developmental splits How do you bridge these two conflicting desires? How do we stop leaning too hard into one or the other?...

What to expect in this episode: Therapy is built on a particular premise: I don't understand myself A lot of times, people don't know how to do therapy, I think there are certain modalities of therapy where of instructing the client is helpful Approaching what's happening in the background (unconsciously), a little more actively than people often do, you see much more profound effects.   Therapy can be aided by identifying unconscious thoughts   Therapy is built on a...